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Summary: Bradshaw is courageous!
Review: To accept our vulnerability is to be courageous. Bradshaw himself had a lot of emotional pain and he has figured out that by being honest about our feelings, it is possible to resolve past emotional pain! The concept itself is not new - in some cultures such as that in the Indian tradition, to grieve over our losses is considered very important. A prime example is the mourning that occurs after the death of a dear one. The family cries and cries along with friends and relatives, sometimes for days on end. After reading Bradshaw's book, practicing his techniques, and experiencing a sense of empowerment and emotional growth, I can fully appreciate this tradition of nursing grief, brought to us from our forefathers.Just like the body is capable of healing a physical wound by itself - all we need to do is protect the wound from being hurt again, take some precautions, etc, thank God that the mind is capable of healing emotional wounds by itself - otherwise there would be no sane people in this world. Today's (modern?) life doesn't permit us to provide this mind an environment conducive to healing, unless we are deliberate. Bradshaw gives us techniques which will help us and our loved ones for the rest of our lives. Thanks to Bradshaw and others like him, I now thoroughly know the value of nursing grief, and by implication the emotion distress we can cause our children and relatives by our improper behaviour. Bradshaw is a gift to humanity.
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Summary: This book has and will help change your life for the better.
Review: Upon reccomendation, I've read this book and found that about 90 percent of us need to read it. It focuses on exactly what the title says, reclamining and rebuilding your inner child. Before reading this book I thought inner child work was a bunch of bull. This book has completely changed my mind and is changing my heart.
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Summary: A new beginning in Western Culture
Review: We tend not to recognize, after a time, the inventors of a seizmic shift in consiousness or perspectivethat reverberates for decades for an entire people. After a time, we come to believe that a movement, not advanced by war or the economic equivalent of such tyranny, was something that was simply meant to be. We will even begin to give credit to the erstwhile disciples of the movement- those who ride the crest of a preexisting wave- in a search for who to acknowledge; in part from a fear of believing an individual can in fact change the world so profoundly with insight, creativity and generosity. John Bradshaw's HOMECOMING is such a work, and he is such a man. His ideas have long since become the stuff of trivialization, as the buzz phrase "inner child" has been drained of its marketable exploitation and appeal. And yet that trivialization has been a response to the degree to which we are now intellectually and emotionally living in his world. I rank this book as one of the most important written during this now ending twentieth century. Make no mistake, our concerns about something as seemingly unrelated as child labor practices in India and China today, and how much we care about it now (when it has existed for centuries, just like here) can be traced back in part back to Bradshaw's influence in how we see the life of children, and subsequently the inner and outer life of adults- ourselves. Its effect on the world as we know it will be felt for years to come, long after it has been forgotten or redefined as a late eighties/early nineties pop psychology fad. Do not be surprised by the books and authors, living and dead, of a multiplicity of disciplines, you find yourself drawn to after reading this. Do not also be surprised at how well it teaches you about who you are, and how deeply it touches your soul.
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Summary: Complicates everything further
Review: Well, this book didn't work for me at all. Everyone I know who have read this book all say "well, good book but I never really got into practicing the meditation-stuff". And that is understandable. It is so complicated and I doubt very much that it will give you more than a temporary, superficial recovery. I tried the meditation, bought a tape-recorder with a microphone and all and really tried hard, but to no avail. I do not recommend it. I wish you good luck if you try it though. I think you might need it.
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Summary: Fantastically Helpful Book - A Must Read!
Review: Wow! Bradshaw picks up where his book, "Healing the Shame That Binds You" left off. He helps the reader to identify problems that arose out of his/her family setting and/or traumatic settings in early life. He then goes on to explain how one's past may well be having a negative impact on their CURRENT, adult life. Finally he helps the reader to eliminate and neutralize those negative impacts and truly become a whole and complete adult. If you find that your life is still going around in circles after reading Healing the Shame that Binds you, then you NEED this book! It is LOADED with pratical information and application. (If it doesn't become required reading for therapist courses abroad I'll be very suprised. It is fantastic! ) No..you are NOT a screw up according to Bradshaw.
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Summary: Fantastically Helpful Book - A Must Read!
Review: Wow! Bradshaw picks up where his book, "Healing the Shame That Binds You" left off. He helps the reader to identify problems that arose out of his/her family setting and/or traumatic settings in early life. He then goes on to explain how one's past may well be having a negative impact on their CURRENT, adult life. Finally he helps the reader to eliminate and neutralize those negative impacts and truly become a whole and complete adult. If you find that your life is still going around in circles after reading Healing the Shame that Binds you, then you NEED this book! It is LOADED with pratical information and application. (If it doesn't become required reading for therapist courses abroad I'll be very suprised. It is fantastic! ) No..you are NOT a screw up according to Bradshaw.
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